Friday, December 21, 2012

Thursday, December 20, 2012

I had a series of blog posts that I was working on for this week, attempting to follow a more regular schedule of posting, but the events in Connecticut last Friday have cast a shadow over everything and I just haven't felt like posting. Although I homeschool our children, my husband is a public school teacher so we are grieving for the families in Newton and feeling the situation a little personally as well.

Friday, December 14, 2012

I learned last year that a lot of folks purchase my tiny earrings as stocking stuffers so I've tried to stuff the shop with them this year. Some are even one of a kind - specialness in a tiny package.

Someone asked me not long ago why I don't stop making the tiny earrings and focus on larger pieces. Good question - I don't mind being questioned. Its me think about what I am doing. But my answer was simple - I have short hair and like to wear tiny earrings.

Sprout in aqua

So...tiny earrings will continue but many designs that I've had for a while will be gone after the New Year. Out with the old and in with the new.

The shapes I liked the best are now patterns to cut thin sheets of polymer. I put shapes together, some layered, as earrings. Larger shapes might become necklaces, parts of necklaces, they might expand to 3D bead.

Tuesday, December 4, 2012

Sometimes I get stopped at clasps - they shouldn't just be an after thought. I've been doing so many "slip over your head" style necklaces that I stopped thinking about interesting clasps. (Or maybe I make "slip over the head" necklaces to avoid making clasps. Hmm...)

This shorter necklace will need to sit and wait while I think about how it should connect.